Biometric technology, including finger vein, fingerprint, iris, and face recognition, is widely
used to enhance security in various devices. In the past decade, significant progress has …

Contactless fingerprint identification systems have been introduced to address the
deficiencies of contact-based fingerprint systems. A number of studies have been reported …

Infrared (IR) small target detection plays an important role in IR guidance systems. In this
paper, a biologically inspired method called multiscale patch-based contrast measure …

Digital Twin is the mirror image of any living or non-living objects. Digital Twin and Cyber-
physical system (CPS) provides a new era for industries especially in the healthcare sector …

With the growing use of biometric authentication systems in the recent years, spoof
fingerprint detection has become increasingly important. In this paper, we use convolutional …

The development of smart homes has advanced the concept of user authentication to not
only protecting user privacy but also facilitating personalized services to users. Along this …

The primary purpose of a fingerprint recognition system is to ensure a reliable and accurate
user authentication, but the security of the recognition system itself can be jeopardized by …

Stacking and bagging are widely used ensemble learning approaches that make use of
multiple classifier systems. Stacking focuses on building an ensemble of heterogeneous …

Biometric authentication systems are quite vulnerable to sophisticated spoofing attacks. To
keep a good level of security, reliable spoofing detection tools are necessary, preferably …

Fingerprint liveness detection has gradually been regarded as a primary countermeasure for
protecting the fingerprint recognition systems from spoof presentation attacks. The …